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  • SUMMER HEAT
    SUMMER HEAT
    DEFNE SUMAN
    'Vivid, evocative and tender.' Elif Shafak 'In our family, secrets were buried deep like treasure, never to be spoken of...' 1974. Melike should be happy: school is shut and her parents have stopped hosting parties for their rowdy political friends. But she's scared. She can tell from her parents' urgent whispers about prison, invasion and military coups that Istanbul is chang...
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  • MOON TIGER (RE-ISSUE)
    MOON TIGER (RE-ISSUE)
    PENELOPE LIVELY
    Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childh...
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  • THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
    THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
    MITCH ALBOM
    Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then he dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who wer...
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  • THE DIVINE COMEDY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    THE DIVINE COMEDY: ANNIVERSARY EDITION
    DANTE ALIGHIERI
    Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. This 700th Anniversary...
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  • THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS
    THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS
    JOHN STEINBECK
    Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English. ...
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  • THE WORLD OF EL CID
    THE WORLD OF EL CID
    SIMON BARTON / RICHARD FLETCHER / ROSEMARY HORROX / SIMON MACLEAN
    Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037...
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  • THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
    ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
    Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year. The stories, in which the master sleuth receiv...
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  • THE LAST WISH LIST
    THE LAST WISH LIST
    JACQUELINE SILVESTER
    Dash & Lily meets P.S. I Love You in a life-affirming rom-com about seizing your chance and learning to love. Scream into the void Do something that scares you Fall in love . . . ? When Nadia's best friend Lizzy dies, she leaves her last wish list - 16 wild and random things to do to help her get over her grief. Every item on the list feels impossible without Lizzy, especiall...
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  • LOVE FORMS
    LOVE FORMS
    CLAIRE ADAM
    In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. ...
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    18,75 €

  • THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR'S NATURE WALK
    THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR'S NATURE WALK
    ERIC CARLE
    Explore the great outdoors with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! In this engaging search-and-find board book, young readers will be challenged to find various animals on a nature walk with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Count the creatures hidden on each spread and discover all there is to see in nature. Lace up those hiking boots, grab some binoculars, and get ready for an adventu...
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    9,99 €

  • LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS
    LAST ARGUMENT OF KINGS
    JOE ABERCROMBIE
    The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him - but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy. It's past time for the Bloody-Nine to come home. With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is ...
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  • CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS: THE SCRIPTS
    CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS: THE SCRIPTS
    SALLY ROONEY / ALICE BIRCH
    When I think of my life, I imagine you at the centre. Frances is a university student in Dublin. Cool-headed and observant, she spends most of her time with her best friend - and ex-girlfriend - Bobbi. On meeting Melissa, a well-known writer, and her actor husband Nick, the pair enter a world of sophisticated parties and holidays abroad. But when Frances and Nick grow unexpect...
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  • L.A. WOMAN
    L.A. WOMAN
    EVE BABITZ
    Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is constantly changing, it is essentially eternal. The two women dazzle, one with the promises of youth, the other with the fulfilment of nostalgia as they wend their way through the pink sunsets and t...
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    12,50 €

  • GLOW
    GLOW
    NOELIA GONZÁLEZ
    Understand the phases of the moon, learn to navigate by the North Star and discover how to travel through space and time from your own window in this book which uncovers how humankind has its history woven into the constellations that light up our skies. Written by NASA science writer Noelia González and fully illustrated by Sara Boccaccini Meadows, this is the perfect introdu...
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    21,25 €

  • SWIFT AND SADDLED
    SWIFT AND SADDLED
    LYLA SAGE
    'Opposites attract with truly combustible chemistry. This is a top read of the year for me' ELSIE SILVER, author of Flawless 'Tender, swoonworthy, and achingly romantic. . . Readers are going to be swept away by Ada and Wes' B.K. BORISON, author of Lovelight Farms She's the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He's the cowboy who wants her anyway. The last thing ...
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  • TRANSFORMATION
    TRANSFORMATION
    MARY SHELLEY
    'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him' His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalks the desolate Genoese coast. A monstrous creature, shipwrecked by a ferocious storm, offers him unimaginable wealth to exchange bodies, entwining their fates. Transformation...
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  • CALL THE MIDWIFE
    CALL THE MIDWIFE
    JENNIFER WORTH
    Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with ama...
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  • THE ATOMIC HABITS WORKBOOK
    THE ATOMIC HABITS WORKBOOK
    JAMES CLEAR
    An interactive guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones, based on the 25-million-copy #1 New York Times bestseller Atomic Habits. Simple Exercises for Building the Life You Want The official companion to the #1 worldwide bestseller is the next step in your habits toolkit. Guided journal prompts will help you engage with your habits and the forces that impact them. ...
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  • A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANS MISOGYNY
    A SHORT HISTORY OF TRANS MISOGYNY
    JULES GILL-PETERSON
    An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic questi...
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    18,75 €

  • ZAPATA
    ZAPATA
    JOHN STEINBECK
    A new volume which includes the original screenplay, with its copious director's notes, and the narrative - this has followed on from a previously undiscovered manuscript by Steinbeck being found in the UCLA Research Library - the narrative treatment of the story on which he based his screenplay. ...
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  • THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME
    THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME
    H. P. LOVECRAFT
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before' After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation in...
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  • AUTOFICTION
    AUTOFICTION
    HITOMI KANEHARA
    Vintage Classics WEIRD GIRLS- Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women's weird fiction. Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to imagine that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out ...
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  • TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA
    TALES OF THE ALHAMBRA
    WASHINGTON IRVING
    Compiled during a three-month stay in Granada, Spain, Tales of the Alhambra assembles descriptions, myths, and narratives of historical events. After completing a literary project in Madrid, author Washington Irving traveled to Granada, Spain. Immediately taken by its beauty and extravagance, Irving requested a travel guide and began filling notebooks and journals with his obs...
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  • THE FAVOURITES
    THE FAVOURITES
    LAYNE FARGO
    To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. 'Perfect if you're a fan of Daisy Jones and the Six' Cosmopolitan 'Brilliant... will keep you guessing until its very last page' Jodi Picoult 'A delight - I was completely hooked' Sophie Cousens ***** READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE FAVOURITES***** 'A true gold medal 5-star book' 'Forever changed me' 'Completely c...
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  • THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN
    THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN
    KATY HESSEL
    How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century USA and the artist who really invented the Readymade. Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing w...
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  • ALICE ISN'T DEAD
    ALICE ISN'T DEAD
    JOSEPH FINK
    New York Times bestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead."This isn't a story. It's a road trip."Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of s...
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    21,25 €

  • THE QUIET GENTLEMAN
    THE QUIET GENTLEMAN
    GEORGETTE HEYER
    If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewer!' INDEPENDENT'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS_____________Returning home from the battle of Waterloo to claim his title as the new S...
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  • NEVER BEEN SHIPPED
    NEVER BEEN SHIPPED
    ALICIA THOMPSON
    The perfect summer rom-com to escape with! When two ex-bandmates reunite to perform on a cruise ship, sparks fly! Micah's relationship to music is... complicated. Her band took off after being featured on a teen TV show, but the group broke up in no small part thanks to Micah's ex, the band's guitarist. Having spent years of trying to make it solo, Micah is offered an opportun...
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  • NOVELIST AS A VOCATION
    NOVELIST AS A VOCATION
    HARUKI MURAKAMI
    A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestelling master of storytelling. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians....
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    13,75 €

  • GEORGE V (PENGUIN MONARCHS)
    GEORGE V (PENGUIN MONARCHS)
    DAVID CANNADINE
    The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackFor a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the modern monarchy, with its emphasis on frequent public appearances, family val...
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    9,95 €